Names & News - Sky-high prices

sky. High prices in most places to be homeless means also to be jobless. But Vancouver has a different problem. Housing in the Canadian city is so overpriced that even well paid construction workers and trades people are living in illegal settlements, such as under elevated train tracks. Mike did. He works as a dry Waller building, an apartment tower where condominium prices started 500,000 Canadian dollars, about 330,000 euros. He lives in a converted school bus because, he says, he can't afford monthly rents of nearly 2000 Canadian dollars for a one bedroom apartment. For me to get a place I'd want to be living in, I would have to have two or three roommates, and we probably wouldn't get along at the end of it did, he told MacLean's magazine. City officials mainly ignore the illegal campers unless there are complaints. That was the case when a local business reported that someone had been stealing power by running an extension cord from a motor home parked on the street to the firm's outdoor socket did. He doesn't need to steal power, though. The 38 year old uses to marine batteries to provide electricity on the bus. They last forever. As long as I'm not blending margaritas, he comments. Okay, Did you get the answer? How high does Mike did? He say the monthly rent is for a one bedroom apartment in Vancouver? The answer is nearly 2000 Canadian dollars. Listen again. He lives in a converted school bus because, he says, he can't afford monthly rents of nearly 2000 Canadian dollars for a one bedroom apartment. If you didn't get the answer the first time, go back and listen to the text again.